The Board has remanded the case for further development, including obtaining medical records and Social Security Administration disability file.
The deciding factor: The Board found that additional evidence is needed to make a fully informed decision on the claims.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic neck pain, degenerative arthritis of the lumbar spine with degenerative disc disease
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 5, 2010
- Citation
- 1008343
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
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